Danielle Fishel & Lance Bass Recreated Their Iconic 90s Prom Photos & Joked About ‘Why We Didn’t Work Out'

Every ‘90s girl remembers the iconic moment when girl crush Topanga from Boy Meets World went to prom with one of the hottest members of the boy band *NSYNC back in 1999. Now, the amazing Danielle Fishel and Lance Bass recreated their famous photo and joked about why they “didn’t work out” as a couple at the time.

“We recreated our 1999 Prom pic, hoverhand and all (and yes, that’s the ACTUAL dress!),” Fishel captioned a video on Instagram, set to Simple Plan’s “I’m Just a Kid.” She added, “I still don’t know why we didn’t work out!!” cheekily referencing the fact that Bass later came out as gay.

In the clip, Fishel wore the exact slinky white slip dress that she wore more than two-and-a-half decades before, with her long blonde hair up in a half-do. Bass wore a dark gray suit with a white flower boutonniere, and placed a matching white rose corsage on Fishel’s hand. They got in position and smiled, right before Bass moved his hand away from Fishel’s back to hover close by. Then, the video cut to the original prom photo — and other than Bass’s bleach-blonde hair, these two look exactly the same!

“Danielle this is ICONIC????,” one person wrote. Another commented, “That hover hand will always be iconic ????❤️ we love a respectful king ????.”

“I remember the first time I saw this photo and I cried hysterically in my bed, and that was after you made out with Kathy Griffin on the Billboard musical awards, and I thought my life was over,” another fan commented, prompting Fishel to respond, “I was NOT happy with that!” Bass also responded, writing, “neither was I! Sorry @kathygriffin.”

“Prom dates to BFFs is a better story anyways,” someone else wrote.

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In an Aug. 2022 interview on the “Pod Mets World” podcast, per People, Fishel revealed that her and Bass dated “for about a year” and broke up shortly after going to her senior prom together. “Lance and I had a very wonderful, very warm, loving relationship but it was completely lacking of intimacy — intimacy in the romantic sense,” Fishel said on the podcast, adding, “I held on for hope for way too long that we were going to get back together and get married and have a family. … It turns out I’m not Lance’s type.”

In the same interview, Bass said that going to prom with Fishel “was the catalyst” for him to “start to accept myself.” Fishel added, “That is the night Lance talks about … where he felt like he was hurting me by not being honest with himself or anyone else about what was going on in his life. And so it was kind of the impetus for him to say, ‘I’m going to end our relationship.’”

Bass officially came out as gay on the cover of People in 2006. He said at the time, “The thing is, I’m not ashamed – that’s the one thing I want to say. I don’t think it’s wrong, I’m not devastated going through this. I’m more liberated and happy than I’ve been my whole life. I’m just happy.”

He is now dad of twins Violet and Alexander, born in Oct. 2021, with husband Michael Turchin. Things also worked out romantically for Fishel, who went on to marry husband Jensen Karp in 2018 and have kids Adler, born in June 2019, and Keaton, born in August 2021.

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